Plot:Artemio is a farmer who lives in Three Village Houses, a tiny village in the
countryside Pavia, inhabited mainly by elderly people, and where the only pastime is to watch the trains pass. He lives
in a big house with his elderly mother, who would like to see him so settled with Mary Rose, the only girl in the
country, a friend of his mother and fell in love (unrequited) for him.Artemio (Renato Pozzetto, left). Arrived the
day of his 40th birthday, Artemio is suddenly aware that he has never really lived a normal life, never having left the
country, and do not want to continue to be a farmer for the rest of his life. He decided to leave everything behind and
groped fortune, leaving for Milan.Arrived in town, not knowing where to go for help to his cousin Severino, years
before moving to Milan, that offers hospitality and work Artemio accepts, but does not know that Severino is actually a
thief who enters and leaves the prison and , unknown to him, involves him in a robbery against a girl. Resosene account,
leaving his cousin and decides to return the snatched purse to its rightful owner, Angela, a beautiful young girl,
employed in career with a multinational.Between the two become friends, and the girl is also a place to stay, a
small but expensive apartment in a residence. At this point Artemio is dedicated to finding a job: trying to make the
insurer, the watchman, the actor in commercials and even the guide of the blind, but always without success, and
eventually finds himself inexorably unemployed and penniless. Over time Artemio ends up falling in love with Angela,
much to propose marriage to her, but she refuses, Artemio being unemployed and poor.Desperate, Artemio attempts
suicide by jumping into the canal, but is saved by a sinister man who proposes to work for him, selling drugs to
children before school. Artemio indignantly refuses, he sends him to hell and tired of living in Milan, began to inveigh
against the city and its inhabitants. Stopped by police, is returned to his country, where again his life of a
peasant.One day unexpectedly receives a visit from Angela, who informs him that, despite everything, was accepted
in the job interview to become insurer being now become for her a "good match", she now appeared willing to his old
proposal of marriage, but Artemio, aware of the sincere sentiments of Angela, decides to spend his life with the one
woman who loved him from the beginning for what it is, or Mary Rose (which has now become a beautiful girl ), and live
with you forever "and happy peasants."

Inconsistencies

In the movie there are several
inconsistencies on the date on which the events take place: at the beginning of the film when Artemio wakes up, the fact
that water from the tub is completely frozen suggests that you are in the middle of winter. Later, when the evening
Artemio comes home and is visited by Mary Rose for her birthday, her mother says it is April 22. Shortly before,
however, when her mother cut her nails to Artemio, says it's the 15th of the month.